Latest Jancee Dunn Quotes from Interviews

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• Before M2, I really felt self-conscious about some of my choices, and I was slotted into a category. At Rolling Stone, I was the alternative chick, and that was just the way it was. That did break me open a little bit, and that was maybe its legacy. And it's a nice one.

  Jancee Dunn

  Nice, Self, Choices

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• I think in its own small way, it did push people to be more accepting of different kinds of music. It definitely made music more egalitarian in terms of, it took away the shame of the goofy bands that you liked.

  Jancee Dunn

  Thinking, People, Way

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• We were the ultimate consumers of the thing, and we thought, "Every college kid is going to go berserk. High school kids - it will introduce them to music they didn't know about. This is going to be a phenomenon." Plus, it seemed like it was insider-y, yet it was available to everyone. I thought, "Cable companies are going to be snatching this up." You think about the dreck that is on so many cable companies, of course they're going to love this. And we were just crushed that nobody cared.

  Jancee Dunn

  Kids, School, College

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• We were really responsive. It was very personalized for the die-hards that did watch, and I thought that would be a big draw, too.

  Jancee Dunn

  Watches, Would Be, Bigs

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• When I hear the Spice Girls, yeah, all that '90s stuff, like Limp Bizkit. Dandy Warhols! Whenever I hear them, it takes me right back, because they were friends of the channel, too.

  Jancee Dunn

  Girl, Stuff, Spices

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• What really takes me back is when I'm walking around the Lower East Side, because we went to so many places [there] - the bakery, a mannequin store, all these factories with mice running around. That also is very visceral and takes me back. Pool halls, tattoo parlors, all kinds of stuff like that.

  Jancee Dunn

  Tattoo, Running, Stuff

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• I was 35. I was the oldest female VJ at Viacom ever. I left them, which at least preserved my dignity, because I'm sure they would eventually have kicked me to the curb. I mean, who there is over 35 now? I can't even imagine. On air? I was glad I lasted that long.

  Jancee Dunn

  Mean, Air, Long

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• If you were to share your workout playlist with the world, I guarantee there's stuff on there that wouldn't pass the cool test, and M2 helped in that way.

  Jancee Dunn

  Workout, Stuff, Way

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• We had to do something at [a festival in Washington, D.C.]. I remember Chris Martin, by then we all knew him, there were certain people who were regulars. He would say, "Oh, my God, you guys, I think I'm going to throw up." It was a daytime festival, and they went on right after some really heavy band, and he was saying, "I don't think I can do this. I think I'm going to throw up." He was in the bathroom thinking he was going to be sick. He said, "They're going to hate us." In fact, they hated them. They hated Coldplay - did not go over well. His instincts were correct.

  Jancee Dunn

  Hate, Thinking, Sick

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• Coldplay was unknown, and we played them over and over and over again, and they were really loyal to us. They went on M2 way after they had broken and become famous, because they remembered us.

  Jancee Dunn

  Broken, Loyal, Way

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• I'm trying to think of who was really unpleasant or just not in the mood for talking. We had on Thurston Moore and he was just not feeling it that day, so it was difficult. Your difficult interview is out there for the world.

  Jancee Dunn

  Thinking, Talking, Feelings

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• [ Lenny Kravitz] is really handsome, and I know I should be objective and think about his music, but up close, he is a really good-looking guy. He was hugging me while I was trying to go to a video, and I completely... You turn into a giddy girl, and it was just horrifying, because he really smelled good, and just the whole package... It's just too much.

  Jancee Dunn

  Girl, Thinking, Guy

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• When they've shut down, you get more nervous. They react to that, and it's just this hideous shame spiral. Although sometimes that can be some good train-wreck TV. That's another reason it's definitely difficult - when you are just not connecting, and it's there for the world to see.

  Jancee Dunn

  Train Wrecks, World, Tvs

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• When someone shuts down on you... There were a couple of times of somebody that was just unpleasant, and you can't get them to loosen up. It's this horrible spiral when it's on camera, because you're trying to get them to like you, to trust you, to give you decent answers.

  Jancee Dunn

  Couple, Giving, Trying

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• I can barely listen to my tapes when I'm transcribing, because I can't stand how I sound.

  Jancee Dunn

  Sound, Tape, Because I Can

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• When you disclose something really personal in hopes that the person will then disclose something personal, too? It's all there on camera, your techniques that everyone can see through.

  Jancee Dunn

  Technique, Cameras, Persons

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• The worst was I had little control in terms of smoothing out my questions and making myself look good the way I could in print. All the ums and uhs and rambling and apologies and hyenalike laughter at something that really isn't funny. You know when an artist will crack a joke, and you're like, "That's so hilarious," like, the fawning laughter that you can at least cut when it's print? It's just all out there, and it's really humiliating.

  Jancee Dunn

  Laughter, Cutting, Apology

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• I got a unicorn horn on my head once. I said, "Can you really see that on camera?" My producer said, "You can see it from space." I would have to angle my head a certain way so that I didn't look misshapen on camera.

  Jancee Dunn

  Space, Way, Cameras

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• I would get adult acne when it was somebody really famous I had to interview, so sometimes I would have to look straight at the camera because I couldn't look sideways or profile, because it would show.

  Jancee Dunn

  Interviews, Cameras, Adults

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• Sometimes we were really surprised. There were major artists that would come by because they wanted to.

  Jancee Dunn

  Artist, Sometimes, Wanted

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• A few of the artists knew my name, because I have an unusual name, from Rolling Stone.

  Jancee Dunn

  Artist, Names, Rolling

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• Also because few people were watching - aside from a healthy amount of incarcerated people, because M2 was offered in a lot of prisons - I was able to ask really long, kind of muso questions, that they loved. We could really geek out and talk about music for long periods of time, and that tape would just keep rolling and rolling.

  Jancee Dunn

  Long, People, Healthy

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• You can see when that happens with bands when they do TV appearances; they just shut down. They get really irritated.

  Jancee Dunn

  Band, Tvs, Irritated

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• We had a wonderful department that scouted out new music. It was beneficial to Rolling Stone, because I would come back and say, "You have to hear this, you have to hear that," and I found a lot of bands to feature, emerging bands. It [ended up being] symbiotic.

  Jancee Dunn

  Stones, Rolling, Band

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• I wondered how I was going to do it and keep my job at Rolling Stone at the same time. They were very nice, and they let me disappear for two days a week for a couple of hours. That's how long shooting was.

  Jancee Dunn

  Jobs, Couple, Nice

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